Monday, May 13, 2013

So Ms Kathleen, under fire for her clumsy, expensive implementation of the ObamaTax, has decided to strong-armencourage the folks on whom she's counting to provide the actual products for the Exchanges:"Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is asking companies for financial donations to help implement President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul"While this is every bit as sad, pitiable and contemptible as it appears, I have another question:How legal would such a donation be?After all, there's that little box on our tax forms for donations to the presidential campaigns, and of course individual citizens are allowed to pay more in taxes than they actually owe.But how, exactly, can corporations do this? When individuals "contribute" by electing to pay more, they can't specify that these extra dollars go to specific agencies.

So Ms Kathleen, under fire for her clumsy, expensive implementation of the ObamaTax, has decided to strong-armencourage the folks on whom she's counting to provide the actual products for the Exchanges:"Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is asking companies for financial donations to help implement President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul"While this is every bit as sad, pitiable and contemptible as it appears, I have another question:How legal would such a donation be?After all, there's that little box on our tax forms for donations to the presidential campaigns, and of course individual citizens are allowed to pay more in taxes than they actually owe.But how, exactly, can corporations do this? When individuals "contribute" by electing to pay more, they can't specify that these extra dollars go to specific agencies.